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April 30, 2015

Safety compliance in hardware and software development focus of online/Munich conference

Online and physical conference focuses on achieving compliance with safety standards such as ISO26262, DO254, and DO178
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April 29, 2015

Automotive integration led by cabling concerns, says NXP

Cabling and its weight are helping to drive integration and a shift towards wireless communication within cars, says NXP's automotive CTO.
April 28, 2015

Cadence upgrades debug for system-level era

Cadence Design Systems has launched a debug tool designed to improve the speed of bug hunting in SystemVerilog but which the company expects to grow into analog and post-silicon work.
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April 24, 2015

Do you need more stress (analysis) in your life?

Mentor Graphics is working on technology to analyse the effects of mechanical stress on integrated circuits, describing progress at the company's U2U conference.
April 22, 2015

UltraSoC pushes debug over USB

UltraSoC has added the ability to employ a USB 2.0 port instead of JTAG as the main debug access point on SoCs that use the company’s UltraDebug technology.
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April 22, 2015

ARM extends ISO 26262 safety work up to A-class

ARM is extending its work on ISO 26262 safety packages for automotive systems beyond the Cortex-R devices supported in a documentation release earlier this year.
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April 22, 2015

Thursday returns as DAC training day

The Design Automation Conference in San Francisco this year will again feature a day of half-day training courses provided by Doulos on Thursday, June 11 .
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April 22, 2015

Fusion core targets voice-activated devices

Cadence has launched a processor core aimed at ‘always on’ signal-processing applications such as voice detection and recognition for wearables.
April 22, 2015

Mentor tool streamlines multi-corner parasitic extraction

Mentor Graphics has launched Calibre xACT, a tool that uses deterministic algorithms to extract parasitics from complex finFET and other nanometer processes.
April 21, 2015

Neuroprocessing to drive next wave of processor cores, says Qualcomm

Deep learning offers the next major opportunity for specialist processors, Qualcomm's Karim Arabi claimed in his keynote at Mentor Graphics’ U2U in San Jose.
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